单词 | bonnet rouge |
释义 | bonnet rougen. The red cap worn by the sans-culottes during the French Revolution, taken as a symbol of the revolutionary spirit. Hence: an ardent republican, revolutionary, or radical. Cf. redcap n. 1e. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > symbol of revolution bonnet rouge1793 red flag1806 red-bonnet1825 1793 S. Weston Lett. from Paris II. v. 45 An instant before the bonnet rouge was given to the King, which had been handed to him from a day-labourer at a great distance,..a voice was heard, [etc.]. 1803 Weekly Entertainer 15 Aug. 124 Over the gates is a pole, supporting a dirty and tattered bonnet rouge, of which species of republican decoration there are very few now to be seen in Paris. 1825 Dublin & London Mag. Apr. 88/1 This was rather too much to be endured by the bonnets rouge, even from an Irish student. 1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 464/1 And the reddest bonnet-rouge among the fishermen had a thrill as if all thrones were leveled. 1905 O. Johnson In Name of Liberty i. iii. 42 Above the din of plates and cutlery..the toasts emerged sharply. ‘To the Bonnets Rouge!’ ‘To the good Sans-Culottes!’ 1976 Eng. Hist. Rev. 91 289 The Dijon model was decorated with both a tricolore flag and a bonnet rouge and cries of ‘Vive la liberté’ were heard. 2010 Observer (Nexis) 19 Dec. (Review section) 29 The man who married Trotsky's secretary made his most interesting and rebellious characters girls: the piratical sisters, the Amazons, who..ululate ferociously beneath their bonnets rouges. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1793 |
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